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Samadder, P., Xicohtencatl-Cortes, J., Saldaña, Z., Jordan, D., Tarr, P.I., Kaper, J.B., & Girón, J.A. The Escherichia coli ycbQRST operon encodes fimbriae with laminin-binding and epithelial cell adherence properties in Shiga-toxigenic E.coli O157:H7. Environmental Microbiology, 11, 1815-1826. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1462-2920.2009.01906.x The above article, published online 1 July 2009 on Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com), has been retracted by agreement between the authors, the journal Editor-in-Chief, Applied Microbiology International and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. The retraction has been agreed due to concerns raised by a third party regarding the appearance of Figures 2 and 7. Figure 7D appears to be digitally manipulated while Figure 7F is a duplication of Figure 2, Lane 4. The raw data were not available upon request. As a result, the data and the conclusions are considered unreliable.